Econ 309:  Tax Reform

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For interest:  

• • Nicholas Kristof on the incredible badness of the way "carried interest" is taxes (New York Times, July 6, 2011)

  • Tax cheating is destroying the Greek economy, and with it, the euro.  (James Surowiecki, The New Yorker, July 11, 2011)

  • Robert Frank on consumption taxation (New York Times, March 21, 2010)

  • What about taxing services like we tax goods?  (Wall Street Journal, Feb. 8, 2010)

    • "The consumption of services, at about $6.1 trillion a year, accounts for about two-thirds of total consumer spending, yet services aren't widely taxed by state and local governments."

• Wow!  Individual tax returns used to be public information?!  

  • Whew, this is a simple but useful idea.  (New York Times, Jan. 23, 2010)

  • Senator Bill Bradley on tax reform in 1986, and the implications for healthcare reform.  (New York Times, August 30, 2009)